Senna Day – Oggi Formulacritica assume una veste grafica particolare che sarà abbandonata alla mezzanotte. Un’iniziativa estetica che ne supporta una redazionale sicuramente più sentita. 24 ore “diverse” per poi tornare alle normali attività di una web magazine calata nel presente ma che non vuole dimenticare un passato segnante. E quello del 1° Maggio 2024 lo è a tutti gli effetti.
Why a Senna Day? A hyper-articulated answer would be needed, long, perhaps verbose, profound in content and certainly tedious to read. Not being able to give it in a writing that introduces the initiative, I reply in a concise manner: Ayrton Da Silva was an icon of motorsport, a historical and cultural break, an everlasting symbol.
Come tale intendiamo ricordarlo impostando un lavoro che ruota esclusivamente intorno al suo nome, alla sua figura e a ciò che è stato per lo sport. E non solo. Sì, perché il brasiliano ha varcato i confini del motorismo per diventare modello trans-culturale. Nell’accezione che le scienze sociali attribuiscono al termine.
Senna: l’uomo spartiacque
There is a Formula One that precedes his advent and one that follows his extraordinary epic which ended in the worst way for fans. But perhaps in the way he himself preferred.
“If one day I had an accident that cost me my life I would want it to be immediate. I wouldn't want to spend hours suffering in hospital or spend the rest of my life in a wheelchair”. This is the dark omen that occurred thirty years ago on one of the most dramatic days in the history of a Formula One team that was trying to get out of the habit of deaths on the track, of tragedies, of the red blood that stained suits and helmets.
This day, which Formulacritica wants to use as a complete tribute to the Brazilian champion, is not intended to be the basis for petty rhetoric, easy sentimentality, a convenient attraction for nostalgic fans. No, it is intended as a way to further attest to the caliber of one of the greatest of all time.
It aims to be, therefore, a way to tell what Ayrton was for each of us. For those like me, that day, who were on the Imola steps surrounded by fear and a deafening silence that not even the roaring naturally aspirated engines were able to pierce. But also for those who got to know him later through stories, films, momentsunrepeatable historians.
With the desire to remember the driver, the man, the symbol, but above all what he represented for us fans/narrators, we offer a series of contents that are closer to the storytelling than to the conceptual analysis of events (which will not be lacking, in any case).
Senza la supponente pretesa di voler svelare dettagli nuovi – su Senna si è scritto e detto veramente di tutto – ma con la voglia di condividere con i nostri lettori una giornata di ricordo vi invitiamo a seguire le nostre iniziative con anche una piaccola-grande sorpresa esclusiva che ci ha concesso chi Ayrton l’ha vissuto molto da vicino.
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